When an author’s highly popular first novel is entitled Comment faire l’amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer (How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired), readers expect sex, sex, sex, and more sex. And rightly so. When said first novel is shortly followed by Éroshima (Eroshima), then readers know that the author [...]

To many — if not most – people, French-Canadian literature is based in the province of Québec. It resides in Montréal, most likely in the Plateau or HoMa. To many, French-Canadian literature bears the face of Michel Tremblay, Dany Laferrière, Monique Proulx or Nicole Brossard. But French-Canadian literature, like the French-Canadian diaspora, has its roots [...]